Day 2 sees session on startups, innovation

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 19

Various sessions were held at the PU departments as part of the ongoing Science Congress.

For chemical sciences, the key address was delivered by Dr Narinder Singh from IIT-Ropar, Roopnagar, Punjab. Two lectures were delivered by Dr Vipan Kumar from the GNDU, Amritsar, and Dr Ashok Kumar Malik from Punjabi University, Patiala.

For engineering and management sciences, two lectures were delivered by Dr Talsimarif Saiyed, CEO, and Director of C-CAMP, Bengaluru, and by Praveen Vamula from Instem Bangalore on ‘Startup and innovation in India: opportunities and challenges.”

A talk was delivered by Dr Amit Kulshrestha, Associate, IISER Professor, Mohali, on ‘Image of power maps in linear groups’, which was attended by about 50 participants.

The physical sciences session commenced with a talk by Dr Davinder Siwal, BFUHS, Faridkot, on ‘nuclear radiation detectors for imaging science’, followed by Dr Basant K Nayak, BARC, Mumbai, and Dr Arun S Oinam, PGIMER,Chandigarh, on various topic. Prof (Dr) Shalini Gainder, Additional Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, PGI, talked on women’s health.